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    Old heater. Anyone have any insight?

    STEVEusaPA
    STEVEusaPA Member Posts: 6,505
    in Oil Heating
    My realtor friend just texted me this...anyone have any info?
    Thanks.
    Steve

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    • RobG
      RobG Member Posts: 1,844
      I think Tim McElwain would be able to tell you about that burner. He might have installed it. ;)
    • Steamhead
      Steamhead Member Posts: 17,748
      Time to replace it. That thing is probably 40% efficient, according to some of my Dead Men's Books.
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      Towson, MD, USA
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    • BobC
      BobC Member Posts: 5,521
      The Smithsonian might be interested . . .

      Listen To Steamhead, that boiler has earned it's retirement.

      Bob
      Smith G8-3 with EZ Gas @ 90,000 BTU, Single pipe steam
      Vaporstat with a 12oz cut-out and 4oz cut-in
      3PSI gauge
    • Zman
      Zman Member Posts: 7,611
      I loved it in the first star wars movie...
      "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
      Albert Einstein
      STEVEusaPA
    • billtwocase
      billtwocase Member Posts: 2,384
      First off, It's an old Weil Mclain. Second it is gas fired. I would put it put to pasture as stated above
    • STEVEusaPA
      STEVEusaPA Member Posts: 6,505
      edited October 2014
      Thanks for the comments. My friend was showing a client a house and saw it, sent me a pic. Said it scared the buyer. I told her to send the pic to Weil McClain, maybe they had a museum and would come get it.
      I'd be curious to see some literature on it if anyone had some.
      Edit: I just realized I posted in the wrong section...still trying to figure out The Wall. :)

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    • icesailor
      icesailor Member Posts: 7,260
      I hope the asbestos abatment was legal.
    • John Mills_5
      John Mills_5 Member Posts: 952
      Yea, does look like a naked snowman!
    • STEVEusaPA
      STEVEusaPA Member Posts: 6,505
      My buddy called it a Wedding Cake Boiler....

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    • CapeCodOilGuy
      CapeCodOilGuy Member Posts: 43
      It's an old "inshot-" style gas burner, used in coal to gas conversions back during the Coolidge administration. ISIS might be interested in the burner, but it's a bad bet for any kind of efficiency or safety. Everything has its time, and its time has come and gone...
      icesailor

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